Foreign Relations Law

Campbell McLachlan QC is Professor of International Law at Victoria University of Wellington. He is a New Zealand Law Foundation International Research Fellow and sometime Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford. He has been President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law and taught at The Hague Academy of International Law. He is a member of Essex Court Chambers (London) and Bankside Chambers (Auckland and Singapore).

• Part I. Sources: 1. Function; 2. Development; 3. Interaction between international and national law; Part II. The Foreign Relations Power: 4. Executive; 5. Legislature; 6. Judiciary; Part III. Foreign Relations and the Individual: 7. Civil claims against the State; 8. Human rights claims; 9. Diplomatic protection; Part IV. The Foreign State: 10. Personality and representation; 11. The claimant State; 12. The defendant State.

'Questions concerning the role of international law before national courts are confronting the courts with constitutional problems as profound as any that have arisen during the past 200 years. This masterly study, by an eminent practitioner and academic, offers both an incisive analysis of the problems and a subtle and precise approach to a solution based upon the methodologies of private international law. It is an outstanding study, carrying the torch of Hersch Lauterpacht and Francis Mann into a new century and a very different world.' Vaughan Lowe, QC, Emeritus Chichele Professor of Public International Law, University of Oxford